John, Thanks for your report. Can you post your bug report xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ? The bug is in the compilation of QEMU, which is an external project; so it’s possible that we’ll end up having to raise this with that community as well. Thanks, -George Dunlap > On Mar 28, 2021, at 2:26 PM, John Simpson <ttr9droid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > Just forwarding this message to you. Can you give some thoughs about this? Thanks a lot. > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Alan Modra <amodra@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 2:21 PM > Subject: Re: An error due to installation that require binutils package. > To: John Simpson <ttr9droid@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: <binutils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:55:23PM +0300, John Simpson via Binutils wrote: > > BUILD pc-bios/optionrom/kvmvapic.img > > ld: Error: unable to disambiguate: -no-pie (did you mean --no-pie ?) > > -no-pie is a gcc option. Neither -no-pie nor --no-pie is a valid ld > option. The fault lies with whatever passed -no-pie to ld. > > -- > Alan Modra > Australia Development Lab, IBM > > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 2:17 PM > Subject: Re: An error due to installation that require binutils package. > To: John Simpson via Binutils <binutils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: John Simpson <ttr9droid@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Please report that to the xen project. ld -no-pie doesn't have a useful > meaning. It used to mean the same as ld -n -o-pie, which sets "-pie" as > the output file name. > > Andreas. > > -- > Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 > "And now for something completely different." > > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: John Simpson <ttr9droid@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:55 PM > Subject: An error due to installation that require binutils package. > To: <binutils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Hello, > > Recently I got a following error due to installation xen on 5.11.6-1-MANJARO kernel: > > GEN target/riscv/trace.c > GEN target/s390x/trace.c > GEN target/sparc/trace.c > GEN util/trace.c > GEN config-all-devices.mak > make[1]: Entering directory '/home/username/xen/src/xen-4.14.1/tools/qemu-xen/slirp' > make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'. > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/username/xen/src/xen-4.14.1/tools/qemu-xen/slirp' > BUILD pc-bios/optionrom/multiboot.img > BUILD pc-bios/optionrom/linuxboot.img > BUILD pc-bios/optionrom/linuxboot_dma.img > BUILD pc-bios/optionrom/kvmvapic.img > ld: Error: unable to disambiguate: -no-pie (did you mean --no-pie ?) > make[1]: *** [Makefile:53: multiboot.img] Error 1 > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > ld: Error: unable to disambiguate: -no-pie (did you mean --no-pie ?) > make[1]: *** [Makefile:53: linuxboot_dma.img] Error 1 > BUILD pc-bios/optionrom/pvh.img > ld: Error: unable to disambiguate: -no-pie (did you mean --no-pie ?) > make[1]: *** [Makefile:53: linuxboot.img] Error 1 > ld: Error: unable to disambiguate: -no-pie (did you mean --no-pie ?) > make[1]: *** [Makefile:53: kvmvapic.img] Error 1 > ld: Error: unable to disambiguate: -no-pie (did you mean --no-pie ?) > make[1]: *** [Makefile:50: pvh.img] Error 1 > make: *** [Makefile:581: pc-bios/optionrom/all] Error 2 > make: Leaving directory '/home/username/xen/src/xen-4.14.1/tools/qemu-xen-build' > make[3]: *** [Makefile:218: subdir-all-qemu-xen-dir] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/username/xen/src/xen-4.14.1/tools' > make[2]: *** [/home/username/xen/src/xen-4.14.1/tools/../tools/Rules.mk:235: subdirs-install] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/username/xen/src/xen-4.14.1/tools' > make[1]: *** [Makefile:72: install] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/username/xen/src/xen-4.14.1/tools' > make: *** [Makefile:134: install-tools] Error 2 > ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). > Aborting... > > Currently I have fresh binutils 2.36.1-2 and it seems to me that the issue is related to this part of code: > > https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/blob/master/ld/lexsup.c#L451 > > It seems to me that this could impact far more users than just me. >
